This week we:

• focused on long o spellings during our UFLI time. We learned about the oe, oa and ow spellings.

• started reading Wonder. This book will take us a while to read but it is SO worth it! Reading this each year is a highlight for me and the students. The conversations that we have each day during read alouds really help develop empathy and critical social thinking in students. 

• wrote in our Flashback Friday duotangs. 

This week we:

• learned more Multiplication in a Flash stories! We are getting so good with our multiplication facts recall!

• put in our 20 minutes a day on Reflex! Just a reminder that students can log in at home and get their GREEN LIGHTS on the weekend too! The growth with our students addition and subtraction fact recall has been amazing! This program is definitely working!

• participated in our small group numeracy rotations. This week the stations were:

  • • teacher table - problem solving

    • independent practice - multiplication facts check in

    • game - Jumping Products (Students rolled two 10-sided dice to give them the factors for a multiplication sentence. They indicated which strategies they used to figure it out. Then, they kept a running total of their products to race their opponent on a 1-1000 chart! It was fun!)

    • technology - Reflex time

This week we:

• learned about the remaining 4 simple machines: screw, pulley, inclined plane and the wheel and axle.

• explored the use of simple machines by Indigenous communities.

This girl is such a Rad Raptor! Every day, she gives me 110% and it is paying off! Last Friday, she read her Flashback Friday to Mrs. Kirton and as a result she was invited to read it on the announcements for the whole school to hear! She did such a great job! Way to go Holly!